The history of the Post-Independence India started on August 15, 1947 when India became an independent Dominion within the British Commonwealth and the Muslim-majority northwest and east of British India was given the status of separate status into the Dominion of Pakistan. Lord Louis Mountbatten and later Chakravarti Rajagopalachari served in the office of the Governor General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became the Deputy Prime Minister of India and its Minister of Home Affairs. India under the full charge of Nehruvian Socialistic Pattern of Society, had to pass the difficult phase of turbulent events of a massive migration of population with Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, integration of over 500 princely states to form a united federation of India, establishment of nascent political system, apolitical judiciary, military set up, civil services, tie up of economic system with the political system and the introduction of adult franchise for the first time in the history of India. All these were, under the supreme command of a charismatic leader Jawaharlal Nehru who had to implement and operate everything in a newly independent country of India. |
